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by mihaic 3y ago
I think this is the clearest explanation I've heard of the principle, kudos!
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I think we're in agreement on the framework of the debate (rare), it's just that from personal preference we draw different lines on what information is reasonable to assume your reader has. I personally have not regretted much as
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While I agree that sometimes I do break my rules myself, when I don't want to spend 15 minutes to name something, I don't think your example convinced me of your case. Would you honestly expect someone to know by heart what "
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by mihaic 3y ago
Absolutely every single time when I use functional programming, I store my intermediary calls in a variable, specifically because naming that variable forces me to explain what that intermediary result should be. If the intermediary result
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by mihaic 3y ago
Why do you think this, right now? I'm not ideological about this, I wish for a future with self-driving cars for instance. The current situation is simply too rapidly evolving and can cause significant economic destruction, for instanc
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by mihaic 3y ago
I see a shallow analogy that isn't true to me on close inspection. To me, human activities from which we can earn a living wage feels like nomadism as the edge of an ever expanding region of agriculture (technological automation in thi
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I watched that many years ago, but still see a difference here. Everything was a remix made by humans that put in their unique selves into the remixing process. An AI model has no "unique self" to add to creation, at least not as
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by mihaic 3y ago
If you truly feel like a grain of sand, that's your choice, but won't you help us that don't feel that way, if it won't do you any harm? I for one do feel really special, as for every human there are about as many bacter
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by mihaic 3y ago
I don't really want to weave baskets, that's what I'd want a machine to do. "The world doesn't work that way" - I've seen this so often, but the most incredible thing about humans was the optimism to be ab
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This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creat
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The difference is that now nobody really "understands" what's going on, it's just that some know how to build these.
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by mihaic 3y ago
There are lots of reasons why raising children is becoming harder, and ironically I haven't seen anyone here say the HN classic: scale. As some things have to be constant, the fewer children we have the more time-consuming and expensiv
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by mihaic 3y ago
One of my favorite memories when I was tinkering with DOS was when I discovered that I could change the display from 80x25 to 80x40 (or was it 50? Something with mode con lines=). It felt like a game-changer, especially since I just started
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by mihaic 3y ago
Drunk people are told not to drive themselves. Letting something labeled "Full Self-Driving" drive them would sound logical to a drunk brain.
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by mihaic 3y ago
The vehicle game is poor metric, since it measures the general population, and doesn't up-front make it clear whether the spirit or letter of the law should be applied. People need some minimum life-experience as well before they can p
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by mihaic 3y ago
While this story was initially against the hubris of controlling a complex system through incentives, since second or third order effect are hard to predict, I think over time the takeaway has degenerated into "you can't have any
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by mihaic 3y ago
Almost every single time I've seen it was better to first prototype a new feature with the existing stack rather than introduce something new. And by careful curation, that initial prototype could be turned into production code with th
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by mihaic 3y ago
Oh, come on, why would Apple use a different charger on Macbooks than on Iphones other than to make more money? And what awful consumer experience are you talking about, that I can charge all my devices with the same charger? I'm gener
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by mihaic 3y ago
This is blog-post level material. As a citizen of the EU, I have lots of complaints of over-regulation, but the fact that telco monopolies have been prevented and costs have been kept low is not one of them. I haven't met anyone that a
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by mihaic 3y ago
Pretty fascinating to see how the actor pays don't match what I was expecting, nor how expensive the actual film stock and its processing was (380k). Do anyone know if there's more of these breakdowns publicly available?
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by mihaic 3y ago
What was most shocking to me was not the corporate incompetence (I'm used to that), but the fact that 5 million devices had been recalled. I had no idea there were so many people that used a sleep apnea machine. I'm wondering if c
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by mihaic 3y ago
Decoding has a component that is proportional to the bitrate. Anime has a much lower bitrate than say a 4k bluray movie. The truth though is somewhere in the middle, as recent CPUs are getting to a point where they can do all the heavy deco
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by mihaic 3y ago
I'm really curious: what kind of workload would companies want to run on a custom Unix that isn't Linux/Mac/BSD? I'm rooting for more mature OS diversity, I just have no idea who the end users would be and what thei
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by mihaic 3y ago
While I applaud the return of physical menus instead of the digital hell of QR-codes, I'm again reminded at how the absurd tipping culture seems to be getting worse in the US. "By the way, all prices are 20% more than what you say
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Differences of quantity can become differences of type. It's one thing for instance of a handful of governments have nuclear weapons, it's another if a few million individual can get their hands on them. I think it's not real
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My Pixel 5's camera has not been working since October 2023 (app crashed on start), and I don't seem to be the only one. No update to fix this seems in sight. Google seems to really have dropped the ball on Pixel QA. It's a d
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by mihaic 3y ago
Every single time I see these statistics, I think that this modern form of capitalism can only exist with modern life expectancies. Should human lives be shorter, we'd have real transfer of capital between generations. Should our lives
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by mihaic 3y ago
This article doesn't actually seem to explore too much the deep origins and cultural impact of this mode of modeling. Lewis Mumford for instance in The Myth of the Machine all the way in 1970 wrote much better about the limitations of
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> Why, though? You always hear people say that one person having too much wealth is a problem but rarely hear a good reason. Historically, most societies where this happened ended up with large violent episodes as a response, so we shoul
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I don't actively try to find active open source project, usually I stumble onto plenty of them from natural browsing/research for my own work That's why I was asking, why would you actively search for projects? To consider co

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